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The producers of Top Chef have been asking for suggestions for likely Seattle candidates for next season’s show. Interested? There will be an open casting call from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 11 at Canlis, 2576 Aurora Ave. N. It’s one of seven open auditions around the country. …

A Chicago food show featuring amateur reviewers will air a “lost Obama episode” from 2001 featuring the then-state Senator as a restaurant critic. The Obama episode of “Check, Please” will air for the first time Jan. 16 — there’s a brief preview clip on the site now. …

P-I photo/Meryl Schenker The food world doesn’t include much in the way of breaking news, so I don’t usually feel hobbled by my lack of cable TV. Tonight, though, since I didn’t make it to the La Spiga viewing party, I had to rely on better-wired colleagues to tell me that Sabrina Tinsley lost out to chef Bobby Flay in her Iron Chef America challenge. …

Ina Garten’s got plenty of fame, but it says more than anything about her, in my book, to say that my mom has her first five cookbooks and still has listed the new “Barefoot Contessa, Back To Basics” on her holiday wish list. Mom is a super cook and a fairly tough cookbook critic, so I expected her to say, when she was in town cooking the bulk of our Thanksgiving meal last week, that she’d had enough Garten. No way. She just asked me to pass along to the Contessa, when we chatted, mom’s particular compliments on Garten’s angel food cake and her roasted parsnips. …

In the strange calendar-world that is the winter holidays, even though we’re still talking about ordering turkeys, it is time to start thinking about Christmas cookies. Luckily, you can sign up now for the Food Network’s “12 Days of Christmas Cookies,” where the network will send an e-newsletter and recipe from one of its stars each day starting Dec. 1. Each recipe will come along with an instructional (broadband) video by the star. …

The Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives has a new book out with stories and recipes from Guy Fieri’s trips around the U.S. The Seattle area gets its due with Lomi Lomi Salmon from Bobby’s Hawaiian Style Restaurant in Everett, the Hobo from Voula’s Offshore Cafe, and the chili from Mike’s Chili Parlor. Except that the Mike’s recipe isn’t much of a recipe, being that it’s a closely guarded family secret. Fieri and co-author Ann Volkwein write that he got more details on it out of Phil Semandiris “than he’d ever done for anybody else.” …

The list of contestants for the new season of Top Chef is out, and the Northwest was a shutout. I guess all we can hope for now is to wait for their full names and see if any at least used to call Seattle home, a la Zoi. You can flip through the contestant bios here to see if you know them or would want to know them — the 17 newcomers include William Shatner’s personal chef. …

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